An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

Ad 8. You meet with a distinction of [Futurity as nothing, and a Proposition de futuro as something] with an [how so? It signifieth only futurity, and that is just nothing.] Ans. You should pardon a man in my condition, if he be •oth to write new Books to answer all Objecters that know not that a Proposition de nihilo is something. If Atheists say, There is no God, They shall know that they say something: If I say that there are no other true Gods, I say something. They that say Datur vacuum say something. You say (But was it not true before:) what is your (it)? The Proposition was not true before it was a Proposition, Concepta vel prolat•: Futurity had not the Metaphysical or Physical verity of an Entity; for it was nothing. The res futura had no such truth; for it was not res dumb futura tantum. What mean you then by (it?) I say still if you can prove that there was an Eternal Proposition de future in God, it ⟨p. 64⟩was true and was God's Essence; which is nothing to our question. You add [Not true before, nor knowable as true.] Ans. You seem by thi• to intimate that God cannot know what will be by his production, without making Mental or Oral Propositions, and knowing them to be true Must God's Prescience be deplorate, if he know not by your Me•ns and Measures? You may ne•• say, It must be by Sense, Fantasy and Species▪ as our Souls work in these muddy Brains. God▪s Knowledge receiveth not a constitutive Object from without, as ours doth. It first concurreth with his Will and Power in making all things what they are (All flowing from it, and it receiving from none:) And in s•cundo instanti; it discerneth all things to be what they are. And whe• he hath made Propositions, he discerneth the• to be true. You keep your way and say [Whe• God declares things to come, he declareth something▪ because there is a Proposition: But when he foreknoweth them, he fore knoweth nothing; which is […] to fore-know.] Ans. 1. When God declareth by Propotions things to come, the Propositio are the Declaration it self and are something; but the things declared are nothing, till they are Why would you confound these? and When he foreknoweth what will be, he knoweth that it is not: Ergo it is not. 3. How prove you, That to fore-know from Eternity that there would be no World till the Creation, or no Deluge, Resurrection, &c. till the time, is no fore-knowledge?